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nitrilases

nitrilases is the plural of nitrilase.

Meaning of nitrilase

Noun

nitrilase (countable and uncountable, plural nitrilases)

  1. Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of nitriles to carboxylic acids and ammonia, without the formation of "free" amide intermediates.

Questions about nitrilases

What is nitrilases the plural of?
Nitrilases is the plural of nitrilase.

Words near nitrilases in the dictionary

  1. nitrifies
  2. nitrify
  3. nitrifying
  4. nitril
  5. nitrilase
  6. nitrilases
  7. nitrilate
  8. nitrile
  9. nitrile imide
  10. nitrile imides
  11. nitrile rubber

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